SWEDISH PIG FARMERS CALL FOR STATE SUPPORT
February 1st, 2014
The Swedish government is to discuss "practical" initiatives to support Sweden’s high cost pig farming sector which is struggling to compete with cheaper imported pigmeat products. The promise of "strategic support" followed meetings between the rural affairs minister Eskil Erlandsson and agri-organisations the Swedish animal farmers association (Sveriges Djurbönder) and the Federation of Swedish Farmers (FSA/Förbundet Sveriges Arbetsterapeuter) in Stockholm on Tuesday (February 25)."We discussed the real problems and financial hardship faced by our ...
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